From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 19:52:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hc1.hci.net (hc1.hci.net [204.255.136.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A25F37B97A for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahze@wp.cc.nc.us) Received: from 24-216-177-184.hsacorp.net (ahze@24-216-177-184.hsacorp.net [24.216.177.184]) by hc1.hci.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA05985; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007310247.WAA05985@hc1.hci.net> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:49:23 EDT From: Mike Johnson To: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting the system date Reply-To: ahze@wp.cc.nc.us X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the easiest way to do it is install rdate , its a package and its a port . just type (as root) rdate -s timehost.gsfc.nasa.gov On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Tyler Spivey wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:06:17 -0700 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > From: Tyler Spivey > Subject: setting the system date > > my cmos batteries dead, but: > how d i set the date? can you specify year 2000? can you > give me an example? man date is wierd. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message